Derek Henderson’s queasy, yet honest slaughterhouse portraits

When you look through this series, after signalling to your face to wrinkle your nose, the next thing your brain might do is remind you that “someone’s got to do it.” Derek Henderson’s portraits of slaughterhouse workers in New Zealand are inspired by his young friends in the 1970s working there to earn some extra cash, and the almost absurd nature of what they were doing as a Saturday job. Henderson has now taken the current employees out of the workplace – in some cases it seems, immediately after a shift – and photographed them as a friendly reminder to the world that this is actually someone’s day job.

Norman Behrendt has recently moved to London to pursue a masters in photography, having grown up in Germany. “I am a Berliner,” he explains. “Born in East-Berlin in the former GDR; I was eight when the Berlin Wall came down and Berlin and Germany got reunited. This memorable event and the collapse of the Soviet Union shaped my awareness of the social and political developments in Europe nowadays.”

For photographer Bolade Banjo, creating or documenting a narrative through a lens has always been at the forefront of his practice. “Since a child, I have always been interested in visual storytelling, the joy you felt when engulfed with imagery and how much one could learn while experiencing something new,” he tells It’s Nice That.

Introducing Polaroid Originals, a new brand which launches today in tandem with the 80th anniversary of Polaroid. “Polaroid hasn’t had a rebrand – they’re still very much around,” explains Polaroid’s creative director Danny Pemberton. “Polaroid Originals, on the other hand, is a completely new brand, built by members of the Impossible Project, completely dedicated to analogue instant photography.”

Emma Hardy has a client list bursting with big names including British Vogue, _Canon, Airbnb, Paul Smith, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and a cascade of others. It’s her personal portfolio that we instantly warmed to though, with a series of images that capture the raw and tender moments of family life.